hook and ladder
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Known internally as 200 Series engines, they are identical to other engines and usually paired with hook and ladder trucks, which do not carry water.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025
“Prices have gone up significantly,” John Mohlenhoff, secretary of the hook and ladder company for the Huntington fire department, told the newspaper.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2021
He couldn’t find the play card for the hook and ladder, one of a handful of strategies at the end of a playoff game against New Orleans last season.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2018
“I want a drum and a hook and ladder with an extentionisting ladder on it,” read the letter.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2015
Nevertheless, some of the hook and ladder men went into the engine room, and there chopped a hole through a bulkhead into the hold.
From First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Stratemeyer, Edward
